TPM Leader - GESTC - Hyderabad

Deloitte Development LLC; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Development LLC in Hyderabad seeks a seasoned Technology Delivery Leader to shape and govern complex, cross-domain delivery programs. You will align strategy with senior technology stakeholders, establish robust governance, and drive portfolio health, risks, and execution across products, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity.

Lead independent delivery assurance, manage dependencies, and push for proven forecasting, metrics, and executive visibility while developing a

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technology delivery strategy aligning with Digital delivery leader and in partnership with senior technology stakeholders.
• Establish the delivery operating model, governance structure, decision forums, standards, and escalation paths across the technology organization.
• Define common expectations for planning, milestone management, dependency tracking, risk management, release readiness, and executive reporting.
• Ensure delivery governance is consistent across domains while allowing appropriate flexibility for different products, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity initiatives.
• Establish a delivery maturity roadmap covering process, people, technology, tooling, metrics, and organizational capability.
• Translate technology strategy into an actionable portfolio execution model.
• Own the integrated view of the technology portfolio, including scope, milestones, delivery commitments, dependencies, risks, capacity, release timing, and forecast confidence.
• Provide senior leadership with a fact-based view of portfolio health and emerging delivery constraints.
• Lead portfolio planning and prioritization discussions involving scope, sequencing, capacity, risk, investment, and business outcomes.
• Challenge delivery assumptions and commitments constructively when they are not supported by scope, capacity, technical readiness, or dependency conditions.
• Establish consistent portfolio health metrics and definitions for delivery status, readiness, risk, and confidence.
• Identify systemic delivery constraints and recommend enterprise-level interventions.
• Ensure material forecast changes are surfaced early with impact analysis and recommended actions.
• Establish independent delivery assurance practices for strategic, complex, and high-risk initiatives.
• Ensure TPMs maintain integrated delivery plans with clear milestones, ownership, entry criteria, exit criteria, dependencies, and decision points.
• Monitor delivery performance across programs and intervene when risks indicate potential impact to scope, schedule, quality, cost, security, or compliance.
• Lead governance reviews for priority initiatives and ensure actions, decisions, and escalations are documented and closed.
• Ensure delivery teams use evidence-based forecasting rather than activity-based status reporting.
• Align product, engineering, quality, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and business stakeholders around realistic delivery commitments.
• Establish an integrated approach for identifying, assessing, mitigating, escalating, and closing portfolio-level risks and dependencies.
• Ensure cross-domain dependencies across Functional, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Platform, Product, and Engineering teams are visible and actively managed.
• Lead resolution of complex delivery blockers that require senior stakeholder alignment or cross-organizational intervention.
• Maintain a portfolio-level RAID and decision management process with clear owners, due dates, mitigation plans, and escalation thresholds.
• Translate technical risks into business, operational, security, compliance, and customer implications.
• Facilitate scenario planning for material risks, including sequencing options, capacity constraints, release impacts, and contingency plans.
• Ensure recurring risks are addressed through structural improvements rather than repeated tactical escalation.
• Oversee the Release Management organization and establish an integrated release governance model across products, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity.
• Own the enterprise release calendar and ensure conflicts, capacity constraints, environment dependencies, and business impacts are visible.
• Establish release readiness standards covering scope, quality, testing, security, infrastructure, data, operations, support, communications, rollback, and hypercare.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity, privacy, risk, quality, control owners, and business stakeholders on release governance matters.
• Ensure post-release reviews capture compliance exceptions, residual risks, lessons learned, and improvement actions.
• Ensure go/no-go decisions are supported by clear readiness evidence, unresolved risks, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Improve release predictability, deployment reliability, operational readiness, and post-release performance.
• Ensure significant release incidents are managed through appropriate escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and executive communication.
• Review release performance trends and sponsor improvement initiatives to reduce recurring deployment issues and late-stage delivery friction.
• Serve as a trusted delivery advisor to the Digital Delivery Leader and senior technology, product, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, risk, and business leaders.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting on portfolio health, delivery confidence, risks, dependencies, releases, compliance readiness, and decisions required.
• Lead senior governance forums and ensure discussions result in clear decisions, accountable owners, and time-bound actions.
• Communicate difficult delivery information with clarity, transparency, and a focus on options and recommended actions.
• Represent the technology delivery organization in enterprise planning, transformation, risk, release, and operating model discussions.
• Build strong relationships across member firm, global, local geography, and offshore stakeholders.
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization of Technical Program Managers, Release Managers, and release compliance professionals.
• Establish the appropriate organizational structure, spans of control, role definitions, capability requirements, and succession plans.
• Set clear performance expectations and development objectives for team members reporting directly.
• Hire, retain, coach, and develop talent aligned to current and future technology delivery needs.
• Create career paths, communities of practice, mentoring programs, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms.
• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, constructive challenge, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop successors and ensure the organization is not dependent on a small number of individuals.
• Establish a balanced set of delivery, release, risk, compliance, quality, and organizational health metrics.
• Track trends such as forecast accuracy, milestone predictability, dependency aging, risk aging, release success, approval cycle time, and post-release issues.
• Use data, retrospectives, stakeholder feedback, and operational results to identify improvement priorities.
• Sponsor improvements to delivery tools, dashboards, reporting automation, governance workflows, and documentation.
• Measure improvement based on business and delivery outcomes rather than process activity alone.
• Establish a recurring maturity assessment and improvement roadmap for the TPM and Release Governance organization.
• Share effective practices across technology domains and scale successful delivery patterns.

Job description

Key job responsibilities:

• Define and execute the technology delivery strategy aligning with Digital delivery leader and in partnership with senior technology stakeholders.


• Establish the delivery operating model, governance structure, decision forums, standards, and escalation paths across the technology organization.


• Define common expectations for planning, milestone management, dependency tracking, risk management, release readiness, and executive reporting.


• Ensure delivery governance is consistent across domains while allowing appropriate flexibility for different products, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity initiatives.


• Establish a delivery maturity roadmap covering process, people, technology, tooling, metrics, and organizational capability.


• Translate technology strategy into an actionable portfolio execution model.

Portfolio leadership and delivery predictability

• Own the integrated view of the technology portfolio, including scope, milestones, delivery commitments, dependencies, risks, capacity, release timing, and forecast confidence.


• Provide senior leadership with a fact-based view of portfolio health and emerging delivery constraints.


• Lead portfolio planning and prioritization discussions involving scope, sequencing, capacity, risk, investment, and business outcomes.


• Challenge delivery assumptions and commitments constructively when they are not supported by scope, capacity, technical readiness, or dependency conditions.


• Establish consistent portfolio health metrics and definitions for delivery status, readiness, risk, and confidence.


• Identify systemic delivery constraints and recommend enterprise-level interventions.


• Ensure material forecast changes are surfaced early with impact analysis and recommended actions.

Delivery assurance and execution governance

• Establish independent delivery assurance practices for strategic, complex, and high-risk initiatives.


• Ensure TPMs maintain integrated delivery plans with clear milestones, ownership, entry criteria, exit criteria, dependencies, and decision points.


• Monitor delivery performance across programs and intervene when risks indicate potential impact to scope, schedule, quality, cost, security, or compliance.


• Lead governance reviews for priority initiatives and ensure actions, decisions, and escalations are documented and closed.


• Ensure delivery teams use evidence-based forecasting rather than activity-based status reporting.


• Align product, engineering, quality, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and business stakeholders around realistic delivery commitments.

Dependency, risk, issue, and decision management

• Establish an integrated approach for identifying, assessing, mitigating, escalating, and closing portfolio-level risks and dependencies.


• Ensure cross-domain dependencies across Functional, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Platform, Product, and Engineering teams are visible and actively managed.


• Lead resolution of complex delivery blockers that require senior stakeholder alignment or cross-organizational intervention.


• Maintain a portfolio-level RAID and decision management process with clear owners, due dates, mitigation plans, and escalation thresholds.


• Translate technical risks into business, operational, security, compliance, and customer implications.


• Facilitate scenario planning for material risks, including sequencing options, capacity constraints, release impacts, and contingency plans.


• Ensure recurring risks are addressed through structural improvements rather than repeated tactical escalation.

Release management, operational readiness, and reliability

• Oversee the Release Management organization and establish an integrated release governance model across products, platforms, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity.


• Own the enterprise release calendar and ensure conflicts, capacity constraints, environment dependencies, and business impacts are visible.


• Establish release readiness standards covering scope, quality, testing, security, infrastructure, data, operations, support, communications, rollback, and hypercare.


• Coordinate with cybersecurity, privacy, risk, quality, control owners, and business stakeholders on release governance matters.


• Ensure post-release reviews capture compliance exceptions, residual risks, lessons learned, and improvement actions.


• Ensure go/no-go decisions are supported by clear readiness evidence, unresolved risks, decision rights, and escalation paths.


• Improve release predictability, deployment reliability, operational readiness, and post-release performance.


• Ensure significant release incidents are managed through appropriate escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and executive communication.


• Review release performance trends and sponsor improvement initiatives to reduce recurring deployment issues and late-stage delivery friction.

Executive stakeholder engagement

• Serve as a trusted delivery advisor to the Digital Delivery Leader and senior technology, product, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, risk, and business leaders.


• Prepare executive-ready reporting on portfolio health, delivery confidence, risks, dependencies, releases, compliance readiness, and decisions required.


• Lead senior governance forums and ensure discussions result in clear decisions, accountable owners, and time-bound actions.


• Communicate difficult delivery information with clarity, transparency, and a focus on options and recommended actions.


• Represent the technology delivery organization in enterprise planning, transformation, risk, release, and operating model discussions.


• Build strong relationships across member firm, global, local geography, and offshore stakeholders.

Organization design and people leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing organization of Technical Program Managers, Release Managers, and release compliance professionals.


• Establish the appropriate organizational structure, spans of control, role definitions, capability requirements, and succession plans.


• Set clear performance expectations and development objectives for team members reporting directly.


• Hire, retain, coach, and develop talent aligned to current and future technology delivery needs.


• Create career paths, communities of practice, mentoring programs, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms.


• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, constructive challenge, collaboration, and continuous improvement.


• Develop successors and ensure the organization is not dependent on a small number of individuals.

Delivery metrics and continuous improvement

• Establish a balanced set of delivery, release, risk, compliance, quality, and organizational health metrics.


• Track trends such as forecast accuracy, milestone predictability, dependency aging, risk aging, release success, approval cycle time, and post-release issues.


• Use data, retrospectives, stakeholder feedback, and operational results to identify improvement priorities.


• Sponsor improvements to delivery tools, dashboards, reporting automation, governance workflows, and documentation.


• Measure improvement based on business and delivery outcomes rather than process activity alone.


• Establish a recurring maturity assessment and improvement roadmap for the TPM and Release Governance organization.


• Share effective practices across technology domains and scale successful delivery patterns.

Qualifications:

At least one of the following accreditations:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)


• Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt)


• SAFe certification


• ITIL certification

Key skills desired

• 12+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, technology delivery, product delivery, transformation, or a related discipline.


• 7+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary technology delivery teams or organizations.


• Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary technology delivery organization.


• Demonstrated ability to connect technology strategy, portfolio execution, delivery governance, and business outcomes.


• Strong experience leading large-scale transformation across multiple technology domains.


• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, enterprise data platforms, cybersecurity programs, DevSecOps, or enterprise infrastructure.


• Experience leading platform modernization, cloud transformation, application modernization, or technology operating model transformation.


• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile, hybrid, and scaled delivery methods.


• Experience improving portfolio predictability, release reliability, delivery transparency, and operational readiness.


• Strong experience managing cross-functional dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and escalations.


• Experience with portfolio-level capacity, resource, sequencing, and prioritization decisions.


• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders.


• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.


• Ability to communicate complex technology, delivery, security, and compliance matters in clear business terms.


• Demonstrated ability to influence across a matrixed organization without relying solely on formal authority.


• Strong organizational design, talent development, coaching, succession planning, and performance management skills.


• Strong analytical, consultative, quantitative, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.


• Experience defining delivery metrics, maturity models, operating models, and continuous improvement roadmaps.


• Ability to lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, organizational change, and high-pressure delivery situations.


• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, SharePoint, or similar delivery and collaboration tools.


• Proficiency with Microsoft applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Teams, and related collaboration tools.


• Ability to collaborate effectively as part of a global, remote team.


• Awareness of SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, data privacy, cyber risk, secure development, and technology control frameworks.


• Experience working in a highly regulated technology environment with formal approval gates, evidence requirements, and production release governance.


• Experience improving deployment frequency, release success, platform reliability, operational resilience, or service readiness.


• Experience developing business cases, investment recommendations, technology roadmaps, and portfolio prioritization models.


• Experience managing vendor, partner, or global delivery relationships.


• Experience leading organizational change, workforce planning, or technology capability-building initiatives.


• Experience using automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to improve delivery reporting and governance.


• Experience serving as a senior advisor to technology executives, business leaders, or transformation sponsors.

Location: Hyderabad

Shift Timings: 11AM to 8 PM